UN-Habitat welcomes the Report of the High Level Independent Panel to Assess and Enhance the Effectiveness of UN-Habitat, which comes in the midst of one of humankind’s greatest challenges: the boom in population and the concurrent mass migration from country to city all over the world.

In that context, the report recognises that UN-Habitat’s work is much sought after by donors and governments, and calls for UN-Habitat to be rapidly strengthened in order to have it deliver on the urban aspects of the 2030 Agenda, and the New Urban Agenda.

Dr. Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, Assistant Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat, represented the agency at the inaugural YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2017 from July 19 – 21 held in Kigali, Rwanda.

Kiambu, Kenya 3 August  2017—Telco Ericsson has partnered with UN-Habitat, UN Environment and the County Government of Kiambu to deliver a project dubbed “Improving Air Quality in Kiambu County through Placemaking and Open Street Activities.

Residents of Kwa Bulo Settlement, Nyali Constituency in Mombasa County were recently issued with more than 1,000 Certificates of Occupancy, ending many years of tenure insecurity and fear of forced evictions. It is a culmination of a long journey which was facilitated by the use and application of Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) tool, a pro-poor land information system developed by the Global Land Tool Network, as facilitated by UN-Habitat.

Kalobeiyei 3 August 2017-- UN-Habitat and UNHCR recently organized a one day workshop for the host community in Kalobeyei area and Turkana West representatives, hosting the new Refugee Settlement planned by UN-Habitat together with UNHCR and the Turkana Ministry of Lands, Shelter and Urban Development.

Ramallah 2 August 2017-- UN-Habitat and its s national partner, State of Palestine Ministry of Local Government launched an online dashboard on community-driven outline plans for Palestinian communities in Area C of the West Bank that is effectively controlled by the Israeli authorities.

Kalobeiyei 2 August 2017-- UN-Habitat, with support from the Government of Japan, recently conducted a community based stabilization programme aiming to support sustainable livelihoods development for refugees and host communities will contribute to improving the skills and increasing the capacity of refugees and host communities to implement development plans.

Barcelona, 02 August 2017-- Following dialogues initiated in 2015 between UN-Habitat’s City Resilience Profiling Programme (CRPP) and the city of Yakutsk, the Russian city has initiated implementation of UN-Habitat’s City Resilience Profiling Tool.

UN-Habitat travelled to the Arctic city in July for a two-week mission as part of the city’s collaboration and engage in various training sessions with key staff from the city council.

Monrovia, 17 July 2017 – Between, April and June 2017, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Liberia led three validation sessions targeted at different urban stakeholder groups. During the workshops, participants reviewed the National Urban Policy (NUP) Discussion Paper for Liberia which covers key proceedings developed so far from the NUP process in the country.

Rio de Janeiro 21 July 2017-- UN-Habitat and the State Government of Alagoas initiated a new project that includes a joint elaboration of urban, economic and social development strategies, focused on the production of data and qualified information, especially in informal settlements locally known as "grotas". The objective is to contribute with public administration in order to increase living conditions of the citizens of Alagoas.